Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 14
‘What do you say of making an exchange?’ said the horseman.
Who acts: you · What happens: say, make · To what, where: exchange, horseman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 say | obj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 making | mark |
| 7 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 say | advcl |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 exchange | det |
| 9 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 making | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horseman | det |
| 14 | horseman | horseman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | gerund | you not said here | a exchange | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset exchange=Product | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the horseman | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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